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A statute that allows insurance companies to cancel contract with their agents for lack of productivity — submitting fewer than 25 insurance applications in a 12-monh period — is best understood as preventing cancellation if an agency submits any combination of auto or homeowners’ applications that equals 25 or more.

A contractor’s claim of common-law indemnification was correctly dismissed because the contractor was sued for its own active negligence and has not been held liable for the wrongdoing of another party.

Plaintiff’s wrongful conduct — the unlicensed sale of 32,000 pounds of meat to defendant — does not preclude plaintiff from suing for breach of contract when defendant stopped payment on its check after the government stepped in and prohibited defendant from reselling the meat.

The application for leave to appeal the July 16, 2013 judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is DENIED, because we are not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court.

A debt collector’s notice to the debtor about assuming the validity of a debt was not tainted when the debt collector notified the debtor that he could dispute the debt “within 30 days of receiving this notice” instead of using the statutory language “within thirty days after receipt of the notice.”